Just days ago, Kathy Bates was in New Orleans, dancing with "Earthbound" co-stars Kate Hudson, Gael Garcia Bernal, Whoopi Goldberg and Treat Williams in a second-line being shot at an Audubon Park lagoon.

Last night, she was in Hollywood for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards to take part in Oscar's big show.

She wasn't the only representative of in-production Hollywood South movies on the red carpet, either. Ryan Reynolds - whose "Green Lantern" cranks up in New Orleans in just a few days - got a huge reaction from the 700 fans who won a seat in the red-carpet bleachers through the Academy's annual lottery

Early in the show, Reynolds was onstage to introduce the first of the 10 Best Picture nominees, "The Blind Side," which coincidentally stars freind-of-New-Orleans Sandra Bullock.

And Jason Reitman, who "Up in the Air" was nominated for six awards - and who himself was nominated for two: Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay - is executive producing the Duplass brothers' next project. That one, titled "Jeff Who Lives at Home," is expected to crank up later this spring.

Other locally connection actors spotted on the red carpet: New Orleans natives Anthony Mackie from "The Hurt Locker" Tyler Perry, and part-time local resident Lenny Kravitz, of "Precious."